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Kicking the Media When It’s Already Suffering

Posted on June 28, 2020

Professors from 23 of the most important schools of journalism in the United States have issued an open letter regarding recent arrests and violence toward journalists. This violence against the media could not come at a worse time. And, people, where without the media will you get information you need to make good decisions in […]

Editor's Kid

Without a Believable Media, How Does Democracy Survive?

Posted on September 4, 2019September 5, 2019

I was saddened to read a New York Times piece recently that said a loose network of conservative operatives will begin discrediting news organizations hostile to the President. That’s not so new. But the method is. They plan to do so by publicizing damaging information about individual journalists and even their family members in some […]

Country Newspaper

‘It is required of a man that he share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.” In the blog that follows I hope to live up to those words from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. This quote always appeared on my father's editorial page.

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Kicking the Media When It’s Already Suffering

Without a Believable Media, How Does Democracy Survive?